Minimum Utopia: Ten Theses
2000; Routledge; Volume: 36; Issue: 36 Linguagem: Inglês
ISSN
0081-0606
Autores Tópico(s)Political Economy and Marxism
ResumoI offer here some reflections on utopia. I make no extravagant claim for them. They do not trace out a history of the concept, nor do they attempt to explore its thematic range and variety. They are simply one person's thoughts on the subject as we approach a new century and millennium. I have arranged them into ten summary theses. As a goal socialism is, and it always has been, utopian, including in its most influential version to date, namely Marxism. This is despite Marx and Engels's attempt, in the Communist Manifesto and elsewhere, to take their distance from utopia as mere abstraction or speculation, to ground their own thinking in present tendencies, in an analysis of real historical possibilities and of the social and political agencies for bringing them about.
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